Rome St. Peter's Basilica Reserved Entry & Interactive Audio App (Dome Climb or Live Guide Option)

Explore St. Peter's Basilica freely
with pre-booked entry

With the ticket option, a multilingual guide accompanies you from the office to the entrance and stays with you until you enter. Inside, explore at your own pace with a story-driven smartphone audio guide app and a digital Vatican map. You can pause and replay the audio whenever you like.

Admire Renaissance masterpieces and mosaics

Take in the impressive architecture, grand altar and richly decorated interior, and see masterpieces by Michelangelo and other famous artists. You can also discover intricate mosaics, beautiful chapels and centuries-old religious traditions.

Take the elevator up Michelangelo's dome

With the dome climb option, take the elevator up the dome, see the ornate mosaics inside up close and look out over Rome from the viewing terrace at the top. A multilingual guide accompanies you from the office to the entrance and stays with you until you start the dome climb.

Options with a live guide are also available

You can also choose to explore with a professional live guide in English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Portuguese or Polish. These options do not include a pre-booked ticket, so security lines can take up to 1 hour in peak season.

※ Even with the elevator, you must climb about 320 steps, and the last section is a narrow, steep staircase.